Display device



Nov. 15, 1927. 1,648,987

A. R. GRIFFES DISPLAY DEVICE Filed July 29. 1926 ENTOR.

Patented Nov; 15, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR a. .bnmrns, or WYOMING, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE FLINTKOTE COMPANY, or BOSTON, mnssnonusnr'rs, A CORPORATION or mnssncnusnrrs.

DISPLAY DEVICE;

Applioation filed July 29, 1926. Serial No. 125,817.

My invention relates to display devices which are adapted to illustrate the effect of various shades of roofing material with va rious colors and shades of house trim, and body color It has become possible, due to the wide varieties of colors of stained wooden shin gles and mineral surfaced composition shingles, to obtain a roof of a color which will blend properly with the color and trim of a house or other building, and my invention is directed to the provision of a device whereby 'the'purch aser can try out various colors of roofs withhouse colors, in order to satisfy himself as to the colored roof that he.

desires to purchase.

It is my object to provide for the dealers in roofing a framework for a miniature house, together with cards printed in colors which will show the front and sides of the house.

- and to so construct the framework and cards that the cards will slip into and out of the frame readily. In connection with the frame a suitable support is provided, and minlature sized roofs ofv miniature sample shingles are built so as to be set up quickly as a roof for the miniature sized house. i

I attain myobjects above detailed, by that certain structure and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

in the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a frame work suitable'for the purposes of my invention.

Figure 2 is a plan of a suitable card for the side of a house to fitsuch a frame.

Figure 3 is a'front elevation of the com: plete assembly.

Figure 4 is a plan View of the device an knock down relation.

Figure 5 is a section along the lines 5-5 in Figure 3.

Fi re 6 is a section along thclines 66 an under curled portion .6 that forms a re-- tainer for the upper roof support.

The forward vertical edges of the two side plates are each flanged and curled to form hinge leaf portions 7,. and flanges or cars 8 may be turned in at the back to provide sup- 2 ports for bracing rods 9.- The rods are, in

the illustrated device, made of metal and hooked through holes 10in the flanges 8, and they have terminal bent portions 11 to hook into the front lower frame,

The front of the device is formed of an upper and alower sheet metal bar. The up per bar as shown at 12, has a downwardly turned flange-.13 at the top,'ai1d hingedleaf curled ends 13* to be aligned with the'portions 7 of .the side plates. Pintles 14-ar'e dropped through the leaves so formed, and ilso through like leaves in the bottom front" The bottom front bar is formed of a sheet metal strip 15 with an upwardly turned bottom flange 16 and curled ends 17 for hinge leaves to be engaged by the said pintles 14.

Cards 18 with sloping tops are provided, as shown in Figure 2, and printed in colors to indicate the side of a house. The card of whatever color desired is placed against the sheet metal side plate and engaged by the flanges 3 and-4 thereof. The same is done.

for the oppositeside of the toy house.

' The front cards 19,.which are also color printed, are set into engagement with the flanges 13 and 16 of the front top and botsize but of'real roofingmaterials. The roof is shaped to it with suitable eaves lying over the frame, and has a batten 23 to engage above the top cross bar, and if desired, a second batten 24-to engage the front card sup orting arm.

T e brace rods arehooked into holes in a rearwardly extended flange 25 in the'bottom cross bar of the front of the frame.

By removing the braces, the whole device can be laid flat and packed up in a suitable carton for shipment, which carton, if desired, may also contain a set of cards. There will naturally be as many sets as desired of the cards, one front card and two side cards to a set, printed with harmonious colors.

Foliage cards may also be provided to increase the realism of the miniature house; no foliage cards are shown as they may be of any desired shape and color. 5 There will also be a series of roofs, finished in different colors or mixed colors, with toy sized shingles of real roofing material, such as it is desired to sell to the customer.

Thus by removing and setting up cards showing various colors, and trying the cards out with roofs of different colors, the purchaser can, in miniature, see a house in which the actual colors he might have, are set in exactly the right relation for him to judge what he likes as a color for his roof, to \blend with the color which he has his house or may wish to select for his house.

It will naturally be possible to accomplish my objects without following the type of structure forming the card and roof supporting frame, of which the essentials are a shape to suit the cards, and means for detachably engaging the cards-in erected position and retalning a miniature sized roof in roper relation to the simulation of a house ormed by the cards.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A device for displaying roofing material comprising a frame support, elements simulatingdhe appearance of portions of a building with the frame support having means for engaging said elements, and a roof member, adapted to be set on the frame support in the same relative relation to said elements. as would appear in an actual house, said frame support consisting of a series of articulated sections adapted to fold up for shipment in a fiat container.

2. A device for displaying roofing material comprising a frame support, elements simulating the appearance of portions of a building with the frame support having means for engaging said elements, and a roof member, adapted to be set on the frame support in the same relative relation to said elements as would appear in an actual house. said frame support consisting of a series of articulated sections adapted to fold up for shipment in a fiat container, and pivoted arms for bracing said sections in set up position.

ARTHUR R. GRIFF ES. 

